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Sublime Text 3 – Configuration for front-end development

Recently I switched to Sublime Text 3. Previously I had been using Adobe Dreamweaver for about 10+ years. And no, I didn’t use adobe’s built in browsers, “Design preview”, etc. It was a simple text editor, with highlighting, tag closing and build in FTP support. Simply, it was the first editor I used after Notepad and I never felt I needed to switch. Why did I move on to Sublime Text 3? Because Dreamweaver became too heavy, slow and just felt like an ancient piece of software.

On my way to a new editor I tried Atom a really cool web-technology (JS) based text editor. I liked it, but it didn’t have the FTP support with which I had grown so used to. And to be honest, I didn’t spend enough time using it as well.

Next I went onto Sublime. I loved it immediately! Simple, clean design, FAST, fast fast! After a while though I realised it didn’t have everything I needed, so I got on ready. Not long and I had a few “packages” that extended its functionality to the basics I needed. Now I cannot even consider switching back to Dreamweaver.

Dreamweaver is not cheap, and considering you have to pay for every freaking new version it is too much for what it provides. Sublime on the other hand is merely $70 for a lifetime license. Oh, and you can use it for free, but will occasionally get a popup asking you if you want to buy the license. For such a brilliant tool, that you can do most of the things you need (for front-end development, not sure about backend) I think it is more than worth it’s price. Below is my setup with simple instructions to install the same themes/packages: